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In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Shadi Hamid about the power of religious belief, the failure of the Left, Islamist democracy, free speech, profiling, white nationalism, Obama’s foreign policy and other topics.

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This a book on critical thinking. Shultz pulls the reader out of their sense of certain by review the fallibility of perception, memory, belief formation, how we hold beliefs and allow (or not allow) them to be challenged. She brilliantly brings in the ubiquitous problem of naive realism, and the problems of induction. In the final portion of the book she catelogs the many ways we can cling to our believes in the face of challenging facts. She uses the Millerites of the 19th century as an example of REALLY getting it wrong. The content will appeal to anyone that has held beliefs very strongly and had to let go. She knows the Feeling and eloquently expresses the good in that.

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